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  • Posted by iNormie 1 year ago. There are 11 posts. The latest reply is from byron.
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  1. iNormie
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Hi,

    I think I will love Photosmash but it is complex for me to install and understand the settings. One problem I have is that the content slider ceases to work on my theme. You can see what I am trying to build at http://www.yourfunnyappworld.com. It is the top left content slider that ceases to work after I install the plugin.

    I also could not find any upload button after I installed the plugin but I believe that has been answered in another post. I'll give that solution a try.

    All of the other settings are foreign to me, so I have a steep learning curve.

    Thanks!

  2. byron
    Key Master
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Hi Norm,

    It looks like you've switched to NextGEN, which is an excellent choice if PhotoSmash isn't what you need.

    The problem was that either your theme or another plugin was loading jQuery incorrectly. If you view source, you'll see the offending line:

    <script type='text/javascript' src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js?ver=3.0.4'></script>

    Here's a post that has several helpful links in case you want to fix the problem or get the plugin/theme author to:

    http://smashly.net/community/topic/cant-upload-images-add-photo-link-doesnt-work

    It's problem #1 in that post.

    Cheers,
    Byron

  3. iNormie
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Woohoo! I'm on it. I will give it a shot. To tell you the truth, I could not get NextGen working but I REALLY like what you are putting together and your support. I will try right now.

    Thanks again.

    Norm

  4. iNormie
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Thanks for your very quick response. I am now officially an avid Photosmasher, but I still don't know how to fix the problem of the bad jquery preventing the content slider from working. Photosmash is now installed and I have the photo page on its way and the widget on the front page on its way to working...but the content slider that is no longer visible is built into the child theme and should display on the upper left corner. Since I don't understand coding, really, I don't understand how to implement the answer in your reply. Is this something I can fix myself, a coding novice?

    By the way, I love your tutorials.

  5. byron
    Key Master
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Glad you found the tutorials!

    I checked your site again, and jQuery is actually being loaded properly! Kudos to your theme/plugin developers...a lot of people get that wrong. What they did was unregister the standard delivered version of jQuery and re-registered Google's version. That is OK.

    But if you run the page in FireFox using FireBug, it shows 4 javascript errors. The errors are due to the fact that the slider is using the $ object, which WordPress doesn't really support with jQuery. It's called "no conflict mode", and usually it prevents conflicts unless a plugin tries to use it...which is the case with the slider plugins...

    Here's jQuery's documentation on it: http://docs.jquery.com/Using_jQuery_with_Other_Libraries
    And WordPress's doc: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_enqueue_script#jQuery_noConflict_wrappers

    I'm going to post again in a few minutes with something to try...

    BB

  6. byron
    Key Master
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Norm,

    There are 4 JS errors, and they all appear to be the same error...so, try doing this

    1) find the follow 4 files:
    - http://yourfunnyappworld.com/blog1/wp-content/themes/BTextended_Thematic/js/slide.js
    - http://yourfunnyappworld.com/blog1/wp-content/themes/BTextended_Thematic/js/hover.js
    - http://yourfunnyappworld.com/blog1/wp-content/themes/BTextended_Thematic/js/slide.js
    - http://yourfunnyappworld.com/blog1/wp-content/themes/BTextended_Thematic/js/glide.js

    2) Open each one and look for the line:

    $(document).ready(function(){

    and replace it with

    jQuery(document).ready(function($) {

    Maybe that will work...fingers crossed!

    Cheers,
    Byron

  7. iNormie
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Ok. First let me say how impressed I am with your helpfulness. REALLY cool and I will promote you as best as I can.

    Second, it is not working yet.

    I went into my Yahoo FTP to find the files. Then I replaced one instance of the string in the 'slide' file and 'glide' file and two in the 'hover' file. I assumed that the second 'slide' file was supposed to be 'slider' so I checked that file but the correct code was already in that file (I replaced it anyway because I really don't know what I'm doing). I did have trouble when I first clicked 'save' and I got an error message but I hit 'save' again and it seems to be accepting that. I hit 'refresh' and checked my website but the problem is still there. Have I done everything I need to in order to refresh the files in my site?

  8. byron
    Key Master
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Norm,

    You're very welcome. Sorry it's still not working. But this looks like it might get ugly. Those javascript files are eaten up with $. syntax.

    Without meticulously going through and replacing all the instances of $ with jQuery (and doing it the right way), this is probably not going to work.

    One thing to try before throwing going to extremes. Try wrapping everything in those files with:

    jQuery(document).ready(function($) {

//All the rest of the code goes here.

}

    I don't know if that will work, but maybe...
    BB

  9. iNormie
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    I appreciate the tips. I've got the theme I want and the photo plugin I want. I wish I could get them to work together.

    I am not entirely clear how to precisely implement what you suggest (I don't code at all) but I will try some experiments after renaming some files and changing a few things.

    Cheers.

  10. iNormie
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    I am now looking for a new magazine theme because I want to keep Photo Smash. I can't seem to get NextGen to work and I appreciate your help. Do you have any favorite free magazine/news themes? Or 4 or 3 column themes anyway.

    Best wishes,

    Norm

  11. byron
    Key Master
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Norm,

    I've started using WooThemes. They've got a great collection of themes, and a Playground that you can test out themes customizing them and stuff before you buy them. You can't add other plugins to their playground, but you can fool around with pages and posts and all of their themes.

    I took a quick look at their Fresh News theme and the slider plugin they use appears to deal with the no-conflict issue properly.

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    Be careful of free themes...only get them from the WP Repository: http://wpmu.org/why-you-should-never-search-for-free-wordpress-themes-in-google-or-anywhere-else/

    Cheers,
    Byron
    BB
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